PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prefrontal Cortex, Agression (Band)
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Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone. Instrumental aggression: the aggression is performed to achieve some other goal. Explain the revised frustration-aggression model, using the model below: Unjustified frustration, we are blocked from attaing a goal (ex. waiting in line) Cues, we are angry and in a situation where we can express it. Define displacement: the redirectio(cid:374) of aggressio(cid:374) to a target other tha(cid:374) the source of o(cid:374)e s frustration. Why might someone displace their anger: feasibility of aggression (mad at your favorite sports team for losing, status differences (mad at your boss) Anderson and colleagues (1998) found that showing pictures of weapons resulted in: Easier to access violent-related words (attack, butcher, choke) after seeing weapons. Donnerstein (1980) found that exposing men to aggressive erotic videos led to: Men exposed to neutral, erotic, or aggressive erotic videos. Trained a male or female partner on a task, using shocks when they got it wrong.